Hiram Burnham

Hiram Burnham (1814-29 September 1864) was a Brigadier-General of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Hiram Burnham was Narraguagus, Maine in 1814, and he served in the US Army during the Aroostook War of 1839. In 1861, at the start of the American Civil War, he became a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Union army and led the 6th Maine Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Peninsula Campaign, the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Battle of Chancellorsville, and the Battle of Gettysburg, taking command of the Light Division of the VI Corps under John Sedgwick in May 1863. On 26 April 1864, he was promoted to Brigadier-General, and he was hit in the intestines by a bullet at Chaffin's Farm during the Siege of Petersburg.